Tai­wan tourism on fast track

The num­ber of main­land tourists vis­it­ing Tai­wan was es­ti­mated to be a record 3.4 mil­lion for 2015, the State Coun­cil’s Tai­wan Affairs Of­fice said onWed­nes­day. About 9.9 mil­lion peo­ple made cross-Straits trips, saidMaXiaoguang, spokesman­for the of­fice. Tai­wan res­i­dents made 5.5 mil­lion vis­its to the main­land— up 2.5 per­cent— while main­land res­i­dents made about 4.4 mil­lion vis­its to the is­land, an in­crease of 7.7 per­cent, he said.